{"id":42548,"date":"2012-08-07T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T10:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42548"},"modified":"2012-08-07T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T10:28:47","slug":"john-carmack-would-be-completely-happy-if-windows-8-didnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42548-john-carmack-would-be-completely-happy-if-windows-8-didnt-exist","title":{"rendered":"John Carmack would be &#8220;completely happy if Windows 8 didn\u2019t exist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>id Software boss and industry legend John Carmack has joined the increasingly popular Windows 8 Hate Club, saying that he&#8217;d be &#8220;completely happy&#8221; if Microsoft&#8217;s latest OS didn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>During his three and a half-hour (!) long keynote speech at QuakeCon over the weekend, Carmack revealed that his studio had stuck with Windows XP for as long as possible and skipped Vista almost entirely before moving onto Windows 7, and that there&#8217;s simply nothing going for Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing I\u2019m looking forward to,&#8221; he said about the OS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At id we used Windows XP almost to the bitter end. We had almost nobody using Vista,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Then we got to\u00a0Windows\u00a07 and everybody switched to\u00a0Windows\u00a07\u2026 I\u2019d be completely happy if Windows 8 didn\u2019t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mojang&#8217;s Markus &#8220;Notch&#8221; Persson, Rob Pardo over at Blizzard, and Valve doughnut lover-in-chief Gabe Newell have also previously expressed concern about Windows 8, so I imagine these guys are all ringing each other up and arranging to meet for a beer so they can talk about how much they don&#8217;t like it together. People like that sort of validation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wt-iVFxgFWk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>\u00a0Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgehit.com\/2012\/08\/06\/john-carmack-would-be-happy-if-windows-8-didnt-exist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gadgehit<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41927-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-says-gabe-newell.html\">Windows 8 is a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d, says Gabe Newell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42047-blizzards-rob-pardo-adds-to-concern-over-windows-8.html\">Blizzard\u2019s Rob Pardo adds to concern over Windows 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42390-windows-8-hits-the-torrents.html\">Windows 8 hits the torrents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42162-windows-8-launch-date-in-sa.html\">Windows 8 launch date in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41465-windows-8-and-gamers.html\">Windows 8 and gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first rule of Windows 8 Hate Club is you talk about Windows 8 Hate Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":39989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,981,887,5124,881,6132,5945,2791,5088],"class_list":["post-42548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-gabe-newell","tag-id-software","tag-john-carmack","tag-markus-persson","tag-quakecon-2012","tag-rob-pardo","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42556,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions\/42556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}